12 Bible Verses about Sudden Destruction

Most Relevant Verses

Proverbs 24:21-22

My son, fear Jehovah and the king; and do not fellowship with those who are given to change; for their trouble shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened up.

Proverbs 1:27

when your fear comes as a wasting away, and your ruin comes like a tempest when trouble and pain come upon you.

Lamentations 4:6

And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is heaped more than the sin of Sodom, overthrown as in a moment, and no hands spun on her.

Proverbs 24:22

for their trouble shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also does not know his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

Isaiah 47:11

But evil shall come on you; you shall not know its origin. And mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it off. And desolation shall come on you suddenly, you shall not know.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows are more numerous about Me than the sand of the seas; I have brought on them, against a mother of a young man, a ravager at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall on her suddenly.

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Sudden destruction » The sudden overthrow of sinners

Proverbs 24:22

for their trouble shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also does not know his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

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